Former Dumont Mayor Andrew LaBruno is due back in court next week for an arraignment after a Bergen County grand jury indicted him on charges that he met an underage boy on social media and then sexually assaulted him.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s office has also indicted LaBruno on an official misconduct charge since he was on duty as a Jersey City police sergeant at the time of the incident and “identified himself as a police officer during the incident for the purpose of hindering his own apprehension.” If convicted, that charge includes a mandatory five years in state prison without parole.
LaBruno was arrested for allegedly drugging and raping the boy on November 17, 2025, less than two weeks after he completed his campaign for State Assembly in the 39th legislative district. He has been detained at the Bergen County Jail since then for the last three months.
He was indicted on charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
Prosecutors allege that LaBruno sprayed an unknown substance into his hand and placed it over the mouth of a teenage boy, causing the incapacitated victim to become dizzy, and then forced him to perform fellatio on him. He’s accused of committing an act of sexual penetration through the use of coercion and without consent, and knowingly engaging in sexual conduct with a child.
On the day before Thanksgiving, Superior Court Judge Gary Wilcox denied bail to LaBruno, agreeing that he posed a risk to the community and the victim and might obstruct the ongoing criminal investigation. He has been suspended from his Jersey City police p
LaBruno has replaced his first lawyer, Kevin Corriston, who told Wilcox in November that LaBruno being on duty while allegedly committing the rape was immaterial because he was entitled to a lunch hour.
His new lawyer is Jeff Garrigan, a criminal defense attorney with considerable heft.
